Anne MacBain, the sister of the notable Gillies MacBain, married Alexander Beaton, Alexander of Skye, and had a family of four sons and one daughter. Mabou Pioneers 1, page 88.
She is the sister of n...

Sir Cecil Beaton, CBE, was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was na...

Recently, I received an email from a distant cousin, Catherine Beaton, who was born in Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She told a couple of wonderful stories about her distant ancestor, Big Fin...

I believe that the image of Janet Beaton on this site (and subsequently copied to many other sites) is of a later woman of the same name as the only other place I have seen this image on the intenet ...